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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.65.11

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 65: Bharata reaches Ayodhyā. He hastens ahead of his company, finds the city silent and neglected and enters his father’s residence in alarm

In the sequence: at Ujjihānā, he leaves the larger force behind and presses ahead with faster horses, crossing more rivers including the Gomatī

2.65.11

hastipṛṣṭhakam āsādya kuṭikām atyavartata
tatāra ca naravyāghro lauhitye sa kapīvatīm
ekasāle sthāṇumatīṃ vinate gomatīṃ nadīm

Reaching Hastipṛṣṭhaka, he passed beyond Kuṭikā; and the tiger among men crossed the Kapīvatī at Lauhitya, the Sthāṇumatī at Ekasāla, and the river Gomatī at Vinata.

Words: hastipṛṣṭhakam — Hastipṛṣṭhaka (a place); āsādya — having reached; kuṭikām — Kuṭikā (a river/place); atyavartata — passed beyond, crossed; tatāra — crossed; ca — and; naravyāghro — the tiger among men; lauhitye — at Lauhitya (a place); sa — he; kapīvatīm — the Kapīvatī (river); ekasāle — at Ekasāla (a place); sthāṇumatīṃ — the Sthāṇumatī (river); vinate — at Vinata (a place); gomatīṃ — the Gomatī; nadīm — river

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. Sanskrit: The Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa: Critical Edition, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1960–1975 (gen. eds. G. H. Bhatt, U. P. Shah); IAST from GRETIL (Göttingen). Translation and word glosses: Claude Opus 4.6–4.7; summaries and sequences: ChatGPT Astra (machine-made). Numbering follows the Critical Edition, not the vulgate (e.g. Gita Press, valmikiramayan.net), so sarga and verse numbers can differ from those editions.